A man who plotted to kill Prime Minister Theresa May in a suicide attack on Downing Street has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 30 years. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 21, from London, was convicted last month of preparing acts of terrorism. During his trial he pleaded Read More

The United States is ending all funding for the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, the US State Department says. It described the organisation, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa), as “irredeemably flawed”. The US administration has “carefully reviewed” the issue and “will not make additional contributions to Unrwa,” Read More

A well-known Belgian sports journalist and TV presenter has been charged with armed robbery for his suspected role in the raiding of a home in Lasne, Belgium. Stephane Pauwels,a TV presenter in both Belgium and France was arrested as part of a major police probe into a string of incidents in the country. Pauwels, 50, […]Read More

President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the body fails to change the way it treats America. “If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Mr Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News. The WTO was established to provide rules for global […]Read More

Immigrants have fled South Africa’s main township, Soweto, following xenophobic attacks which killed three people on Wednesday, the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko reports from Johannesburg. Violence broke out after locals accused a Somali shop owner of shooting a teenager and his friend who allegedly tried to break into his store. Police believe this triggered the chaotic Read More

Ugandan pop star and MP Bobi Wine has been prevented from leaving the country to seek medical treatment despite being granted bail, his lawyers say. He was charged with treason last week, following the alleged stoning of President Yoweri Museveni’s convoy. On Monday, a judge said he did not constitute a flight risk and granted […]Read More

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday named a commission including a South African ex-president and a British human rights lawyer to investigate the death of six people in an army crackdown on post-election protests early this month. In keeping with his earlier promise to get to the bottom of the much criticised army action after […]Read More

A hunter has been killed in northern Canada in an attack involving a polar bear and her cub, and two other hunters received minor injuries. The hunting party from Naujaat, Nunavut, an Inuit hamlet located on the Arctic Circle, were out seeking narwhal and caribou when they were attacked. Both the mother bear and cub […]Read More

Supporters of a former state governor in Nigeria have mocked incumbent Muhammadu Buhari stating that as old as he was, Buhari was unfit to govern Nigeria. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, a one-time governor of Kano State located in north-central Nigeria also leads Kwankwasiyya Movement – which has a trademark of followers wearing red caps and veils. […]Read More